While doing some research last night, I stumbled across something that I wanted to share. I found that Jimmy Breslin’s Sunny Jim: The Life of America’s most Beloved Horseman James Fitzsimmons is now available as an e-book. This ranks high among my all-time favorite racing books and, until the release of the e-book, very difficult to find. I highly recommend this one — it’s a brilliantly told tale about about a man whose life spanned an incredible era of thoroughbred racing in America:

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I met this gentleman once in New York. I think he was little embarrassed that a young kid would ask him for his autograph, but he very kindly scrawled his name on an envelope my mother had in her purse. Somewhere between here and there that envelope was lost, but I’ll always have the memory.